How much does Building Direction for Families Inc give?

Building Direction for Families Inc reported 9 grants totaling $655,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Building Direction for Families Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (25%), Education (24%).

Who are Building Direction for Families Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Parent Share and Support Inc ($729k), Delaware County Memorial Hospital ($647k), Exceptional Persons Inc ($572k).

Does Building Direction for Families Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Building Direction for Families Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Building Direction for Families Inc based?

Building Direction for Families Inc is based in IA.

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants: funding profile →

Iowa · Public charity

Building Direction for Families Inc

Bdf is the local iowa community empowerment area and de-categorization project in buchanan, delaware and fayette counties in iowa involving local community members and early care, health and education professionals in collaborative efforts. These state supported initiatives encourage community people to develop strategies to reach six…

$655k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2025: $57,882
Largest grant, FY2025: $157,499
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 11; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $734k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Building Direction for Families Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman Services

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$651k	0%
FY2024	9	$640k	0%
FY2023	10	$679k	20%
FY2022	8	$629k	0%
FY2021	9	$615k	0%
FY2020	11	$630k	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$948kEducation$939kCrime & Legal$453kEnvironment$272kYouth Development$66k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Parent Share and Support Inc	$729,258	6	84%
Delaware County Memorial Hospital	$646,851	6	n/a
Exceptional Persons Inc	$571,720	6	1%
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center	$452,992	6	0%
Families Inc	$439,101	6	5%
Preschool Scholarships	$335,482	6	n/a
Operation Threshold Inc	$272,439	4	1%
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp	$219,227	6	0%
North Fayette Valley Community Coalition	$79,515	3	33%
Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc	$35,881	3	1%

Show all 13 grantees

All grantees of Building Direction for Families Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Parent Share and Support Inc	$729,258	6	84%
Delaware County Memorial Hospital	$646,851	6	n/a
Exceptional Persons Inc	$571,720	6	1%
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center	$452,992	6	0%
Families Inc	$439,101	6	5%
Preschool Scholarships	$335,482	6	n/a
Operation Threshold Inc	$272,439	4	1%
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp	$219,227	6	0%
North Fayette Valley Community Coalition	$79,515	3	33%
Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc	$35,881	3	1%
Oelwein Csd	$30,139	2	n/a
Independence Community School Distr	$25,394	1	n/a
Jesup Community School	$6,000	1	n/a

Building Direction for Families Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Building Direction for Families Inc with peer funders

About Building Direction for Families Inc

How much does Building Direction for Families Inc give?: Building Direction for Families Inc reported 9 grants totaling $655,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Building Direction for Families Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (25%), Education (24%).
Who are Building Direction for Families Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Parent Share and Support Inc ($729k), Delaware County Memorial Hospital ($647k), Exceptional Persons Inc ($572k).
Does Building Direction for Families Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Building Direction for Families Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Building Direction for Families Inc based?: Building Direction for Families Inc is based in IA.